Jim Browning is the Internet alias of a software engineer and YouTuber from Northern Ireland[1] whose content focuses on scam baiting and investigating call centres engaging in fraudulent activities.

[4] He has since carried out investigations into various scams, in which he infiltrates computer networks run by scammers who claim to be technical support experts[1] or pose as US IRS agents and use remote desktop software or social engineering.

[17][18][19] Browning was covered in a 2021 New York Times article documenting their confrontation of a small-scale refund scam operation based in Kolkata, India.

Bhattacharjee later flew to India to check out call centers that Browning had identified as possible scammers and to confront the individual who had perpetrated the refund scam on the elderly woman.

[23] He explained in a video that the scammer used Google Chat to send an authenticated phishing email from the "google.com" domain and convinced Browning to delete his channel under the pretense of moving it to a new YouTube brand account.